Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Bikes sold by American brands are often made in China and Taiwan these days, even if they have been designed in the USA. That includes companies like Trek, Specialized
and Cannondale, and we’ve also said goodbye to companies like Klein and Guerrilla Gravity.

But several brands are keeping the dream of domestic bike production alive, with road, gravel, and mountain bikes on offer. Allied Cycle Works bikes are built in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Moots Cycles, known for their titanium frames, has been handcrafting frames in Steamboat Springs, Colorado for nearly four decades.

Speedvagen is still operating out of Portland, Oregon, Lynskey is building titanium bikes in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Mosaic Cycles handcrafts its machines in Boulder, Colorado.

Brands such as these may be in a minority, but they’re Made In The USA with a focus on quality and style rather than price.

Signal Cycles Randonneur

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Winter Bicycles Calypte

Yesterday, while I was scrolling through my flickr feed, I was struck by an image of a very obviously proud new bike owner. It was…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Brothers Rich Raleigh DL-1

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Bishop Bikes Tommy’s Road

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Land Shark Roadshark

The 19th stage of the 2013 Giro d’Italia, from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello, was canceled due to treacherous conditions, reminding us of Andy…

Leave It On The Road

If you list the Rapha blogs among your daily reads, or read Prolly Is Not Probably, you’ll have come across these two Speedvagen road bikes…

Firefly Bicycles FF-217

If there’s one thing to be said for Boston’s Firefly Bicycles, they’re happy to try new things. While the trio of Tyler, Jamie and Kevin…

Pachyderm CX001

Unless you’ve a strong interest in the American custom bicycle scene, you might not have heard of Doug Fattic. Doug teaches frame building classes from…

Prolly’s Geekhouse Woodville

Whoever has had a beloved bicycle stolen from them will know what anger and anguish it can cause. Woe betide those who perform the unspeakable…

Arbisi Porteur

It’s encouraging to witness the growing interest in the handmade bicycle. Especially when you come across a first-time builder, someone like you or me, picking…

Pythagoras

A squared + B squared = C squared. Pythagoras’ name has an obvious place on one side of a triangle, but what’s not so well…

Tomii Cycles Fat Road

The line that defines artist and engineer, in the world of the custom bicycle, is a fine one, and one that depends on your personal…

Asylum Meuse SSCX

Even today, after a couple of hundred years, the bicycle keeps evolving. Frame materials have changed, factors such as economics and fashion also exert their…

Athena Bikes: Build Process Step 2

Dan Bailey is a Minneapolis frame builder whose shop is called Pallas Athena Custom Bicycles and he’s been walking us through the construction of custom…

Alchemy x Blacksmith Cycle

Canadians are very proud of their outdoor lifestyle and their sense of adventure, it’s always good to hear from the riders and their rides. Paul…